If 99.9 Percent Is Good Enough, Then \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 811,000 faulty rolls of 35mm film will be loaded this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u2022 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.<\/p>\n
\u2022 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.<\/p>\n
\u2022 268,500 defective tires will be shipped this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 14,208 defective personal computers will be shipped this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover.<\/p>\n
\u2022 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Two plane landings daily at O\u2019Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.<\/p>\n
\u2022 3,056 copies of tomorrow\u2019s Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.<\/p>\n
\u2022 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.<\/p>\n
\u2022 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips.<\/p>\n
\u2022 $9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.<\/p>\n
\u2022 55 malfunction automatic teller machines will be installed in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n
\u2022 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n
\u2022 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022 $761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and compact discs that won\u2019t play.<\/p>\n
\u2022 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.<\/p>\n
\u2022 315 entries in Webster\u2019s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled.<\/p>\n
Communicator, (InSight, Syncrude Canada Ltd., Communications Division), p. 6<\/p>\n
Philanthropy<\/b><\/p>\n
Maria Fedorovna, the empress of Russia and wife of Czar Alexander III, was known for her philanthropy. She once saved a prisoner from exile in Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander. The czar had written: \u201cPardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.\u201d After Maria\u2019s intervention, the note read: \u201cPardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.\u201d The prisoner was eventually released.<\/p>\n
Today in the Word, July 14, 1993<\/p>\n
Misspelling<\/b><\/p>\n
In the New York Times last year: \u201cThe \u2018Candidates on Television\u2019 listing yesterday misspelled the name of the Vice President in some editions. It is Quayle, not Quale. The Tmise regrets the error.\u201d <\/p>\n
Reader\u2019s Digest<\/p>\n
Statistics <\/b><\/p>\n
Once when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was preparing a speech, he needed some economic statistics to back up a point he was trying to make. His advisers said it would take six months to get accurate figures.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that case, I\u2019ll just use these rough estimates,\u201d FDR said, and he wrote down some numbers in his text. \u201cThey\u2019re reasonable figures and they support my point. \u201cBesides,\u201d he added as an afterthought, \u201cit will keep my critics busy for at least six months just to prove me wrong.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bits & Pieces, June 25, 1992<\/p>\n
Quote<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy of dishonesty. – Charles Simmons<\/p>\n
Atomic Clock<\/b><\/p>\n
Time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (Formerly the National Bureau of Standards) set a new level of precision in 1949 by inventing the atomic clock. It counted the oscillations of the nitrogen atom in an ammonia molecule–and was reliable to within one second in three years. <\/p>\n
More recently, NIST switched to an atomic clock based on the vibrations of cesium atoms. It will need 300,000 years to gain or lose a single second. But NIST scientists are working on a still-better model: a single mercury ion will be trapped in a vacuum by laser beams and cooled to its lowest possible energy level. The atom\u2019s oscillations will then be so stable that the new timepiece should be accurate to within one second in 10 billion years–the total life span of stars similar to our sun. <\/p>\n
Business Week, reported in Resource, Mar\/April, 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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